source: trunk/autoquest-plugin-alignment/src/main/java/misc/AlignmentHelpers.java @ 1490

package misc;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import de.ugoe.cs.autoquest.eventcore.guimodel.GUIModel;
import de.ugoe.cs.autoquest.eventcore.guimodel.IGUIElement;


public class AlignmentHelpers extends GUIModel {
        

        
        /**
         * 
         */
        private static final long serialVersionUID = -2593092958275693133L;

        /**
         * <p>
         * return a common denominator for the provided list of GUI elements, i.e. a
         * GUI element, that is part of the parent GUI hiearchy of all GUI elements
         * in the list. If there is no common denominator, the method returns null.
         * </p>
         */
        private static IGUIElement getCommonDenominator(List<IGUIElement> guiElements) {
                IGUIElement commonDenominator = null;

                if (guiElements.size() > 0) {
                        List<IGUIElement> commonDenominatorPath = new ArrayList<IGUIElement>();

                        // create a reference list using the first GUI element
                        IGUIElement guiElement = guiElements.get(0);
                        while (guiElement != null) {
                                // We can use every type
                                // if (guiElementMatchesConsideredTypes(guiElement)) {
                                commonDenominatorPath.add(0, guiElement);
                                // }
                                guiElement = guiElement.getParent();
                        }

                        if (commonDenominatorPath.size() == 0) {
                                return null;
                        }

                        // for each other GUI element, check the reference list for the
                        // first element in the
                        // path, that is not common to the current one, and delete it as
                        // well as it subsequent
                        // siblings
                        List<IGUIElement> currentPath = new ArrayList<IGUIElement>();
                        for (int i = 1; i < guiElements.size(); i++) {
                                currentPath.clear();
                                guiElement = guiElements.get(i);
                                while (guiElement != null) {
                                        // if (guiElementMatchesConsideredTypes(guiElement)) {
                                    currentPath.add(0, guiElement);
                                        // }
                                        guiElement = guiElement.getParent();
                                }

                                // determine the index of the first unequal path element
                                int index = 0;
                                while ((index < commonDenominatorPath.size())
                                                && (index < currentPath.size())
                                                && commonDenominatorPath.get(index).equals(
                                                                currentPath.get(index))) {
                                        index++;
                                }

                                // remove all elements from the common denonimator path, that do
                                // not match
                                while (index < commonDenominatorPath.size()) {
                                        commonDenominatorPath.remove(index);
                                }
                        }

                        if (commonDenominatorPath.size() > 0) {
                                commonDenominator = commonDenominatorPath
                                                .get(commonDenominatorPath.size() - 1);
                        }
                }
                return commonDenominator;
        }

        public static int distanceBetween(IGUIElement first, IGUIElement second) {

                int hopcount1 = 0;
                int hopcount2 = 0;
                List<IGUIElement> tmp = new ArrayList<IGUIElement>();
                tmp.add(first);
                tmp.add(second);
                IGUIElement commonDenominator = getCommonDenominator(tmp);
                
                while(!(first.equals(commonDenominator))) {
                        first = first.getParent();
                        hopcount1++;
                }
                
                while(!(second.equals(commonDenominator))) {
                        second = second.getParent();
                        hopcount2++;
                }

                return hopcount1 + hopcount2;
        }

}